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  • "Chunky" chicken soup in a can just costs a couple dollars, you could try heating that in a coffee pot. Add some fresh cherry tomatoes and canned fruit and you have a good meal.

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    Without a Trace: How to Take Your Phone Off the Grid
  • you can’t get a sim card anonymously here, and i believe that’s the situation in other places.

    It varies by country: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prepaid_mobile_phone#Privacy_rights

    In the US you can still get a prepaid mobile without showing ID and pay with cash.

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    How to Move Your Instagram Feed to Pixelfed, the Photo App That Doesn't Track Your Every Move
  • Coming from Wired, I’d hope the article would have a more technology focused approach,

    Wired is for people who want to talk about technology without actually taking about technology.

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    First contact with aliens could end in colonization and genocide if we don't learn from history
  • we have basically no way at all of influencing or thwarting them.

    Maybe. The Spanish conquistadors, and the British in India, all found that it was easier to "divide and conquer" by picking local allies.

    But surely no human would sell out their own species... right?

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    The TV streaming apps broke their promises, and now they’re jacking up prices
  • Do you like commercials? And how much are you willing to pay for TV?

    If the answers are "no" and "zero", then that's going to affect how much TV you/we watch, even if you/we like the TV shows.

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    Twitter-turned-X CEO Linda Yaccarino working to win back brands on Elon Musk's platform
  • According to the article, Musk is the ideas guy and it's her job to implement them. So when Twitter fails, he'll say the ideas were great, it was an execution problem.

    She probably figures at her next job interview she'll say it was a no win situation, but at least she accomplished (something).

    Also, "research has indicated that women and other minorities view risky job offers as the only chance they are likely to get" -Wikipedia

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    Overrated Literary Classics (and What to Read Instead) | Book Riot
  • Clickbait. The writer is comparing historically-important books that are taught in literature classes to more modern books that can be read for fun.

    Sure, we all read stuff for fun, that doesn't mean the books studied in literature classes are overrated.

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    Lemmy and Kbin: The Best Reddit Alternatives?
  • A fair-minded article. This sounded off though:

    a big attraction of Reddit—that its main page is a kind of greatest hits of an enormous community.

    No, r/all was the lowest common denominator, full of karmafarming, ragebait, and reposts. Every time I looked at r/all I regretted it, so I mostly stuck to subreddits.

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